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The midnight movie lives on in Dalston! Venture forth from your home cinema cocoon, or your laptop, to savour the delights of cult movies, forbidden pleasures and dark thrills on the big screen in the comfort of the Rio's atmospheric art deco auditorium. Ticket prices for these shows are £7.50 (except where stated). And if you fancy hosting your own late show, why not choose a film (subject to availability) for a Friday or Saturday late night show on a date of your choice. You need to be a Friend of the Rio (cost £20) and the cost of the late show is £320 (including VAT) which includes admission for up to 50 guests. The screening will also be open to the public, at our regular late night admission price of £7.50 Other options including private screenings are also possible. For further details contact Charles at charles@riocinema.org.uk or on 7241 9415. | ||||||||||||
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Back by popular demand! THE STORY OF LOVERS ROCK (12A) 11.30pm (UK 2011) dir. Menelik Shabazz 96m. Digital. Lovers Rock, often dubbed 'romantic reggae' is a uniquely black British sound that developed in the late 70s and 80s against a backdrop of riots, racial tension and sound systems. A forgotten period of music, social and political history is recalled and recreated with live performances, comedy sketches, dance, interviews and archive material all of which shed light on both the music and the generation that embraced it. £7.50 | ||||||||||||
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WEEKEND (18) 11.30pm (UK 2011) dir. Andrew Haigh 97m. Digital. A one night stand becomes something more in a gay love story which for once is more reality rather than fantasy. Two young men trying to make sense of their lives embark on 48 hours of sex, drink, drugs and conversation. Andrew Haigh's heartfelt script and direction plus two great performances from Tom Cullen and Chris New convincingly capture all the anticipation, excitement, adventure and romance of any new relationship, gay or straight, that might just last more than a weekend. £7.50 | ||||||||||||
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GHETT'A LIFE (15) 11.30pm (Jamaica 2011) dir. Chris Browne 104m. Digital. The director of THIRD WORLD COP, the highest-grossing Jamaican movie ever, returns with the passionate tale of aspiring boxing champ Derrick, who decides to cross ghetto, family and political boundaries in inner city Kingston, defying his father in doing so. He also unwittingly taunts the crime lord that runs the area but still finds time to fall for his boxing mentor's granddaughter. Positive and inspirational. £7.50 | ||||||||||||
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SCROOGED (PG) 11.30pm (US 1988) dir. Richard Donner. 95m. Digital. The great Bill Murray in the deliciously nasty role he was born to play. He's the world's meanest TV executive until one cold Christmas night in New York City when various ghosts lead him on a cathartic tour of Manhattan, with stops at holidays past, present and future. Could well be based on a Charles Dickens tale but this version has some wonderful state of the art special effects, 1988 vintage and a real blast from the past with Annie Lennox and Al Green singing 'Put a Little Love in Your Heart'. £7.50 | ||||||||||||
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GHETT'A LIFE (15) 11.30pm (Jamaica 2011) dir. Chris Browne 104m. Digital. The director of THIRD WORLD COP, the highest-grossing Jamaican movie ever, returns with the passionate tale of aspiring boxing champ Derrick, who decides to cross ghetto, family and political boundaries in inner city Kingston, defying his father in doing so. He also unwittingly taunts the crime lord that runs the area but still finds time to fall for his boxing mentor's granddaughter. Positive and inspirational. £7.50 |
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RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE (15) 11.30pm (Finland 2010) dir. Jalmari Helander. 77m. Subtitles. Digital. Christmas, but not as we know it. Part fantasy, part horror, part very black comedy, this seasonal tale from Finland involves dead reindeer, a search for the body of a very miserable Santa Claus and some very odd little helpers. The truth is out there somewhere and an American team of investigators is determined to find it, but not without some really unexpected twists and turns. A creepy, macabre and very original reminder that 'Santa' is indeed an anagram of... £7.50 |
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THE RUM DIARY (15) Johnny Depp returns to the world of his late pal Hunter S. Thompson last visited in FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS. This time round Bruce (WITHNAIL AND I) Robinson is in charge of the idiosyncratic and the hallucinogenic as radical journalist Paul Kemp washes up on the shores of Caribbean tourist paradise island of Puerto Rico. But there's an ugly side of the Dream and Kemp is soon on a learning curve that is as often as funny as it is myth-making. It all adds up to an affectionate heart-felt tribute to a legend. £7.50 | ||||||||||||
| Fri 13 Jan • Late Night London Short Film Festival
New shorts 20: Midnight Movies' Nightcap (18) 11.30pm
The London Short Film Festival teams up with Midnight Movies for a second year running. This selection of mind-bending short films mixes strange surrealistic dreams and nightmares with more out-and-out horror. Includes the Warp Films produced The Organ Grinder's Monkey by artists Jake & Dinos Chapman and starring Rhys Ifans. 1/4'' Ian Pons Jewell 6m. Total running time: 84 mins + late bar after screening http://www.shortfilms.org.uk £7.50 |
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At Home with the Ludskis No.3 Winter Edition (18) 11.30pm A unique selection of intriguing artists and inspiring performers in this late night Art Happening. Granny Ludski and her team of curators desire to bring together all the arts to stimulate, display and entertain even! Artists confirmed so far: 'From Dada to Grandma the beat goes on…' www.facebook.com/AtHomeWithTheLudskis Bar til 2.30am £5 | ||||||||||||
ROBOCOP (18) (US 1987) dir. Paul Verhoeven. 103m. Digital. Paul Verhoeven's original urban sci-fi Western is the tale of a good Detroit cop who literally gets shot to pieces and is reborn as a crime-fighting machine – RoboCop and soon he's on on a one-cyborg mission of vengeance. The director saw him as "an American Jesus with a gun", and the movie as a merciless satirie on Reagan-era America. With introspection and ruminative psychobabble on hold, subtle it ain't but enjoyable it certainly is. + dj set after screening!
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BLUE VELVET (18) 11.30pm (US 1986) dir. David Lynch. 120m. David Lynch's surreal peek behind the picket fences of small-town America reveals a corrupt shadowy world of evil, sadism and madness. College boy Kyle MacLachlan stumbles across a severed human ear and with the help of sweet Laura Dern turns detective only to become enveloped in a nightmare of voyeurism, drugs and sex personified by psychotic madman Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper). Even after 25 years there is nothing quite like it and it still looks as modern as hell. £7.50 |
FRI 2 Dec • Late Night
SAT 3 Dec • Late Night
FRI 9 Dec • Late Night
SAT 10 Dec • Late Night
FRI 16 Dec • Late Night
SAT 17 Dec • Late Night 
SAT 7 Jan • Late Night
SAT 21 Jan • Late Night Cigarette Burns Cinema
SAT 28 Jan • Late Night
107 Kingsland High Street E8 2PB
(corner John Campbell Road)
Tel 020 7241 9410
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